Editing Fred Singer (section)

===1967–1994===
In 1967 he accepted the position of deputy assistant secretary with the [[U.S. Department of the Interior]], where he was in charge of water quality and research. When the [[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]] was created on 1970, he became its deputy assistant administrator of policy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=S. Fred Singer (1924 - 2020) |url=https://heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/s-fred-singer/ |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=The Heartland Institute |language=en-US}}</ref>

Singer accepted a professorship in Environmental Sciences at the [[University of Virginia]] in 1971, a position he held until 1994,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/s-fred-singer|title=S. FRED SINGER (1924 - 2020)|publisher=Heartland Institute|language=en-US|access-date=October 31, 2019}}</ref> where he taught classes on environmental issues such as ozone depletion, acid rain, climate change, population growth, and public policy issues related to oil and energy.{{citation needed|date=February 2018}} In 1987 he took up a two-year post as chief scientist at the [[U.S. Department of Transportation]], and in 1989 joined the [[Institute of Space Science and Technology]] in Gainesville, Florida where he contributed to a paper on the results from the [[Interplanetary dust cloud|Interplanetary Dust]] Experiment using data from the [[Long Duration Exposure Facility]] satellite.<ref name = "scheuering2004" /><ref>[http://spiedl.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=PSISDG002214000001000076000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes Long duration exposure facility (LDEF) interplanetary dust experiment (IDE) impact detector results]{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> When he retired from Virginia in 1994, he became Distinguished Research Professor at the [[Institute for Humane Studies]] at [[George Mason University]] until 2000.<ref name=CV>[http://www.sepp.org/about%20sepp/bios/singer/cvsfs.html S. Fred Singer, Ph.D. Professional background] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060928135220/http://www.sepp.org/about%20sepp/bios/singer/cvsfs.html |date=September 28, 2006 }}, Science & Environmental Policy Project, accessed May 13, 2010.</ref>

[[Naomi Oreskes]] and [[Erik Conway]] say that Singer was involved in the [[Presidency of Ronald Reagan|Reagan administration]]'s efforts to prevent regulatory action to reduce acid rain.<ref>Oreskes, Naomi and Erik M. Conway, "Chapter 3: Sowing the Seeds of Doubt", in ''Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming'', New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2010: p66-106.</ref>